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Is building this a reasonable expenditure of tax dollars?

• medmunds 2y ago
  > Proposed budgets should not exceed $90,000 for the first year and $90,000 for the optional second year. The Labs team seeks proposals for research and work that connects Library collections to new audiences by promoting insight and inspiration, discovery of Library items, and/or creative remixing and reuse. [1] Speaking as a taxpayer, that seems like a pretty minimal investment (certainly on the government scale) with a novel, beneficial goal. [1]: https://labs.loc.gov/about/opportunities/innovator-in-residence-program https://labs.loc.gov/about/opportunities/innovator-in-reside...
• numair 2y ago
  It’s less than one minute of nuclear arsenal maintenance. We can afford both. https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2024/06/17/us-spent-98000-per-minute-on-nuclear-weapons-in-2023-new-report-says-via-truthout/ https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2024/06/17/us-sp...
• chairmansteve 2y ago
  Yes. It has my vote.